Zcon0 - Privacy: From A to Zcon
Presented by Zcash Foundation in Montreal, Canada
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Opening Remarks
Josh Cincinnati addresses the audience at Zcon0 with aims to inspire and unite them and to foster relationships of trust building privacy infrastructure in the face of global threats to privacy.
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Keynote: State of the Network
Zooko announced that he and other Zcash advocates had been educating regulators that "user-protecting technology is part of the solution not part of the problem. User-protecting technology is a building block of a well-governed democracy."
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From Zerocoin To Zcash
Matthew Green tells a story of Zcash's origins, the joining of the seven scientists with Zooko and the Zcash Company (now Electric Coin Company) and why privacy is vital to currencies.
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A History of Zcash
Good things happen when collaborators come together at in-person events. Nathan Wilcox tells the story of meeting Matthew Green and Str4d at Real World Crypto in 2018 and the subsequent creation of Zcash and Electric Coin Company.
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Cultivating Sapling
Sean Bowe explains the monumental performance improvements in Zcash Sapling that could enable shielded transactions on mobile devices and hardware wallets.
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Defining and Proving Security of the Sapling Protocol
Ariel Gabizon explains how the Zcash Sapling payment protocol has been constructed to enable hardware wallets for transaction-signing and how keys can be derived for various transaction tasks to efficiently maximize security and privacy.
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Using Zcash
True (and honest) story about a very zero-knowledge Zcash transaction and the need for more user-friendly wallets by Linda Naeun Lee at Zcon0 in 2018.
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Empirical Analysis of the Zcash Blockchain
Mary Maller's recommendations for Zcash users on blockchain privacy and shielded transactions is still good advice and relevant in 2023.
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More Zcon clips will be released on this page regularly.
Stay tuned!
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